Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 31, 2022

We sat down with Eric and Joan Trice, Founder of Allterra Group, LLC, to discuss how technology is changing things for appraisers in the near future. What are some examples of the new technology helping appraisers today? How is Asteroom changing the game in the appraisal industry? Email comments@appraisalbuzz.com.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 20, 2021

The public response to the recent Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Request for Information on appraisal-related issues was significant, with 164 unique written comments. ” From the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB): “NAHB is a strong proponent of a sound and effective appraisal industry. .”

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Housing Wire

JULY 6, 2023

Apprasial management company Valligent , which was recently acquired by enterprise risk management and collateral valuation services provider VerosTM , announced today that it has integrated with the ICE Mortgage Technology platform Encompass.

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Housing Wire

APRIL 18, 2024

With AI’s capacity to perform complex reasoning and manage autonomous operations, it is critical to explore how this technology can reshape industry standards, enhance operational efficiency, and how we as an industry manage its inherent risks. One prevalent myth suggests that AI will replace human appraisers entirely.

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Appraisal Buzz

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In today’s Buzzcast, we dive into the new technology that has emerged and how desktop appraisals are influencing the future of the industry. Today we have Jim Morrison, VP of Marketing and Sales for Allterra Group, and Tony Pistilli, Director of Valuation Operations at Accurate Appraisal Group.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Scot Rose , CIO at Class Valuation , to talk about innovation in the appraisal space and how the technology being deployed for appraisal modernization can actually protect appraisers. SW: How do you think about technology and prioritizing what to do next?

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Appraisal technology company Accurate Group announced this week that it has acquired Voxtur Appraisal Services , an appraisal management company (AMC). Voxtur primarily serves real estate finance providers and specializes in broker-price opinions (BPOs), alternative valuation methods and traditional appraisals.

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

CoreLogic announced on Thursday the launch of “ScanToSketch,” an augmented reality (AR)-based property measuring and sketching tool to create home appraisal reports. Developed using CoreLogic’s appraisal software brand “a la mode,” the tool has been used to complete roughly 20,000 property sketches.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 11, 2021

In today’s Buzzcast, we dive into digitizing the appraisal process and our Business-Building Workshop, “Technology that Transforms.” Ernie Durbin is the host of this technology workshop and we’ll be getting the inside scoop while Joan and Ernie discuss how appraisals are evolving.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 24, 2021

AppraisalWorks , a real estate appraisal technology provider, has enhanced its flagship appraisal management technology platform. The AppraisalWorks platform is designed to streamline the real estate appraisal process, helping lenders and servicers achieve lower costs, faster turn times and greater transparency.

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Appraisal Buzz

JULY 15, 2021

In today’s Buzzcast, we dive into how technology has changed within the appraisal industry, where it seems to be headed, and the benefits of emerging tech today. We’ll be getting the inside scoop while Joan and Vlad discuss the influence and impact that technology has on the industry.

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Appraisal Buzz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

—Digital transformation is underway with a modern approach to appraisal management—. Boston, September 14, 2021 – Reggora , an appraisal software company, improving residential real estate valuation, announced today that Envoy Mortgage has adopted its appraisal management system to help process all loans requiring an appraisal.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 26, 2021

The post ServiceLink Rolls Out New Closing Technology appeared first on DSNews. The post ServiceLink Rolls Out New Closing Technology appeared first on Appraisal Buzz. The company reports it is committed to challenging the status quo and delivering smart solutions that benefit the lender and borrower.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 11, 2021

Technology is constantly changing the appraisal industry. Learning how to adopt—and adapt to—the new technologies can help you become more efficient and generate more income. To find out, we asked real estate appraisers, “What ONE technology tool makes your life easier as an appraiser?”

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short term and underestimate the effect in the long term.” This is the little-known Law of Amara that describes how we perceive the impact of new technology on our lives. Forty years ago, appraisers were storing property data on Property Cards. 5G transmission speeds.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

CoreLogic ’s Image Analytics is an innovative solution in the appraisal review space. Image Analytics is a fully automated solution that evaluates the content of appraisal photos, highlighting errors and allowing lenders to reduce time, effort and costly manual mistakes within their operations.

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 8, 2023

Real estate valuation technology company Clear Capital unveiled an automated underwriting risk analyzer solution called AURA on Tuesday. AURA integrates appraisal quality analytics driven by machine learning and photo AI into loan origination and order management platforms.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Opteon , a Scottsdale-based appraisal, valuation, advisory, and property services provider, has expanded its direct-to-consumer business model nationwide, the company announced on Wednesday. “Our impending technology rollout will enable appraisers to deliver reports straight from the field,” Trice said. .”

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Housing Wire

JUNE 14, 2021

ICE Mortgage Technology will now deploy an “eVault” solution as part of its mortgage closing platform to ensure the secure storage of digital mortgages and notes, it announced late last week. ICE, which owns Ellie Mae , announced in April that appraisal-management tech provider AppraisalWorks is now available through its platform.

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Housing Wire

JANUARY 18, 2023

From an appraiser shortage to turn-time challenges amid record-breaking volumes, the past few years have been a whirlwind for the appraisal industry. HousingWire recently sat down with Jaro Managing Director Gareth Borcherds to learn what steps housing professionals can take to speed up appraisals.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 6, 2023

Nationwide Property & Appraisal Services LLC (NPAS), a pioneer in the real estate appraisal sector, announced on Tuesday the launch of its product line, Pinnacle Desktop Appraisals. By separating the data collection and valuation processes, potential bias is eliminated, ensuring that homeowners and appraisers never meet.

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Housing Wire

MAY 2, 2021

Over the last several years, significant technology trends continue to change the way people interact and work, and collateral valuation is no exception. Traditionally, appraisers gather information manually in the field and return to their desktop for data entry.

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Appraisal Buzz

MAY 17, 2021

The post Lending Technology Provider Roostify Adds Chief Technology Officer appeared first on theMReport.com. The post Lending Technology Provider Roostify Adds Chief Technology Officer appeared first on Appraisal Buzz.

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Housing Wire

JUNE 22, 2023

Appraisal Insights , an appraisal education company committed to eradicating bias, announced its official launch this week. The goal is to quip key stakeholders and decision-makers in the housing industry with the knowledge necessary for preventing bias and enhancing the quality and integrity of real estate appraisals.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 20, 2021

Brian Paine has joined Knowledge Coop , which offers compliance training to the mortgage industry, as director of technology. Paine has also served in integral technology roles at Entisys360, Western Precooling, Live Nation, Charles Schwab and Nordstrom.

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Kairos Appraisal Services

AUGUST 16, 2023

From virtual house tours to applying for a mortgage online, the real estate industry has embraced new technology, weaving it into many of its processes. The home appraisal industry is beginning to use more technology, too.

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Appraisal Buzz

MARCH 21, 2022

Now that the GSEs have approved desktop valuations for purchase, appraisers need a way to collect trustworthy, verifiable data while also submitting floor plans on reports! Join us for our upcoming webinar on March 22 nd at 2 pm, “ Appraiser-Controlled Desktop and Remote Valuations ” with Mark Walser and Lisa Ratzke!

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Housing Wire

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler sat down with Kenon Chen, executive vice president of strategy and growth at Clear Capital , to talk about appraisal modernization and how technology is just part of the solution. SW: How are appraisers adapting to some of these challenges, including new rules on valuations from the GSEs?

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 4, 2022

The parent company of appraisal software firm Veros Real Estate Solutions has acquired California-based appraisal management company Valligent Technologies. Valligent, founded in 2003 and led by Jeremy McCarty and Jeff Wickham, provides traditional, desktop and hybrid appraisal services to lenders, credit unions and others.

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Appraisal Buzz

AUGUST 3, 2022

We sat down with Todd and Joan Trice, Founder of Allterra Group, LLC, to discuss what appraisers need to know about the current market, quality control, and new technology. What are the most common revisions that appraisers have to fix in their reports? What can appraisers do to keep up with the latest technology?

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 16, 2022

Mortgage Capital Trading (MCT), a mortgage hedge advisory and secondary marketing software firm, has introduced a new technology for mortgage servicing rights (MSR) buyers to produce more granular pricing for mortgage servicing. The feature leverages an application programming interface (API) to connect MSRlive!,

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Appraisal Buzz

JUNE 14, 2021

Fannie and Freddie are slowly rolling back some of the COVID-era regulations that have facilitated getting appraisals done during the pandemic. Appraisers are starting to get one-off requests from Fannie and Freddie for more information and an interior inspection, even though the property already had a COVID-alternative accepted.

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Housing Wire

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Appraisal turn times have historically been a pain point in the mortgage process and in boom times, when transaction volumes soar, turn times tend to be one of the first casualties. In 2020 and 2021, for example, some markets saw appraisals take as long as three to six weeks. What’s going on? New products speeding up the process.

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Housing Wire

MARCH 1, 2023

Fannie Mae updated its Selling Guide on Wednesday to include more options for property valuations, saying that they are “moving away from implying that an appraisal is a default requirement.” Those options include value acceptance (formerly appraisal waivers), value acceptance plus property data and hybrid appraisals. “We

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Housing Wire

AUGUST 28, 2023

In a shrinking mortgage market, fee pressures are the main challenge for appraisers, according to a new survey from the National Association of Realtors. In 2023, nearly half of appraisers surveyed said fee pressure was their biggest challenge, up 20 percentage points since last year.

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Appraisal Buzz

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Fannie Mae announced on January 19, 2022 that they will be accepting desktop appraisals for eligible loan transactions. The team at Fannie Mae were the first to announce requirements lockstep with their Regulator that desktop appraisals will become a normal part of the appraisal product landscape. Appraisal Labels.

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Housing Wire

OCTOBER 1, 2022

If discrimination is committed by appraisers – as the news headlines would suggest – fellow appraisers and real estate agents say they rarely witness or experience it. Another issue with appraiser competency could be appraisers’ apparent lack of familiarity with valuation tools.

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